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Campaign Promises & Reality (Part 1) — Dept. of Education
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the shuttering of the DOE.
By Andrew Zuelke, Constitution Party of Wisconsin April 2025
A March 20th article from The Hill, quotes Donald Trump as saying, “The department’s useful functions…will be pre- served, fully preserved.” The article refers to Pell Grants, Title 1 funding and programs for stu- dents with disabilities. “They are going to be preserved in full and re- distributed to various other agencies and de- partments.”
I wanted to share some comments on the De- partment of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and the efforts of President Trump. We Constitution-
alists praise President Trump for the mass deporting of illegal immigrants, for fighting the fentanyl epidemic, stopping the alphabet soup people’s (LGBTQIA) Godless agenda al- lowing biological men in women’s spaces, sex-change mutilations, and the indoctrina- tion of children in public schools. We thank the president and his team for exposing the enormous waste of our taxpayer dollars not just through USAID but other agencies of the government. It is the fervent hope of the Constitution Party that Republicans in Congress, after decades of promises to do so, will follow through on their campaign promises of elim- inating the many unconstitutional agencies and will restore our federal government to its permitted funding duties under Article 1: Section 8. Will they also withdraw America from the one-world government agency that is the United Nations? Will they end the IRS (Infernal Revenue Stealers) and the Federal Reserve? Here are some points of concern – On March 20th, President Trump signed an executive order to dismantle the so- called Department of Education (DoE). Great! The Constitution Party of Wisconsin and the national Constitution Party have advocated from our party’s humble begin- nings — as the US Taxpayer’s Party — for
Remember the “Contract with America?” The GOP pledged that if they took control of the House of Representatives, they would bring ten items to the floor (which Democ- rats had blocked) for an up and down vote within the first 100 days, which Republi- cans, to their credit, did. In fairness to President Trump, he has only been president for a few months, but it is now over sixty days and the legislation to eliminate this department still must be “worked on” by Congress? Couldn’t we have had a Contract with America II – this time for eliminating government departments – ready for an up and down vote? 3). On March 23rd, Trump said in an Oval Office press conference that he decided that the Small Business Administration (SBA) “will handle all of the student loan portfolio” and that student loans are “coming out of the Department of Education immediately.” Trump added that HHS Secretary Bobby Kennedy will be “handling special needs and all nutrition programs.” So, the president still wants the federal government overseeing student loans, and the DoE will continue to exist, just in a di- minished capacity? Republicans have said for years that they are against the federal government being involved in student loans. President Trump campaigned on eliminating the DoE, not just paring it down. We are also not going to eliminate the SBA? Small busi- nesses were being created in America long before the SBA began in 1953. Mr. Presi- dent, we do not need the SBA either. If we do not fully eliminate the DoE, should Democrats ever retake power, they will take all the transferred duties and put them right back into the DoE. Worse, De- mocrats in Congress will vote to put addi- tional funding into the DoE and transfer all the duties back. They will cry that additional funding is needed to “make up for all the years of lost funding under Trump which hurt millions of poor, minority children in states across America.” I hope I am wrong and that the Republi- can-controlled Congress passes the neces- sary legislation to eliminate the failed socialist experiment that is the DoE. Noth- ing would please me, and other Constitu- tionalists more. ConstitutionPartyOfWisconsin.com (608) 561-7996
However, press secretary Karoline Leavitt is quoted in the same article as saying, “The Department of Education will be much smaller than it is today. As you know, the president’s executive order directed Linda McMahon [Education Secretary] to greatly minimize the agency. So, when it comes to student loans and Pell Grants, those will still be run out of the Department of Educa- tion.”
Leavitt added, “Any critical functions of the department…will remain.”
McMahon is quoted as saying that Trump’s “directive to me, clearly, is to shut down the Department of Education, which we know we’ll have to work with Congress, you know, to get that accomplished.” Again, great! McMahon has laid off 1,315 staffers of the DoE, going from over 4,000 employees to just over 2,000. Just some thoughts on these quotes –
Let Us Continue to Bring Light and Truth to Our Fallen Nation in 2025!
1). Both President Trump and McMahon said “shut down” the DoE, but Leavitt used the phrases “much smaller” and “greatly minimize.” Now, which is it? “Mini- mize” and “eliminate” are not the same. It also quotes Leavitt as saying things will “still be run out of the Department of Educa- tion.” How can you run programs out of an eliminated agency? 2). McMahon said she knows we will “have to work with Congress to get that accomplished.” If Re- publicans wanted to eliminate DoE all these years, shouldn’t GOP incumbent con- gressmen have al- ready had the legislation to do that written up before the general election in an- ticipation of a Trump victory, so that come January 20th, 2025 they could have hit the ground running?
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